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‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...

TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were...

THE PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials yesterday for receiving Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, stressing that any...

PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...

A MEMBER of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) admitted yesterday that he is having sleepless nights, worrying about the state of...

HARINGEY workers and residents yesterday said they are glad to see the back of council leader Claire Kober and want her housing ‘regeneration’ scheme...

THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s...

PASSING cars hooted in support as locked out Gate Gourmet workers picketed on the hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. Avtar told News Line: ‘We will...

Tory Chancellor Hunt declared that the entire cost of British capitalism’s crisis is to be dumped onto the backs of the working class yesterday. Hunt...

‘THE game is up for PFI, it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayers’ money,’ the GMB union said yesterday responding to the National Audit...

THE Royal Mail bid to get the three-day London CWU postal strikes declared illegal failed yesterday late afternoon. The London reps meeting taking place in...

WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly...

TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...

TRADE union delegates at the TUC Congress in London on Monday supported the call from the North East London Council of Action to occupy...

FOURTEEN more Palestinians, including two children, died from starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the 24 hours to yesterday, reports the Palestinian Ministry of...

‘TRANSPORT for London – do the right thing!’ shouted striking London Overground Travel Safe security workers lobbying TfL head office in Victoria yesterday. ‘What do...

GREEK teachers delivered a major blow to the right wing government of Prime Minister Mitsotakis last Wednesday after courts had declared as ‘illegal’ the...

FRENCH President Macron has been forced to completely back down and abandon his hated fuel tax hike. Spurred on by their victory the...

‘The NUT will support all those school communities – heads, teachers, parents and governors – who resist forced Academy status’, pledged NUT General Secretary...

‘FREE Babar Ahmad,’ Babar’s father Ashfaq Ahmad told supporters outside the High Court in central London yesterday, ‘if Babar is extradited to America then...

Venture capitalists Texas Pacific and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are this week expected to bid for the supermarket group, J Sainsbury. Their take-over will mean sackings,...

THE United Nations human rights office has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that Israeli forces ‘summarily executed’ at least 11 Palestinian men...

THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...

Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...

UP TO 18 fire engines are unavailable to respond to emergencies each day in North Yorkshire because of chronic staff shortages, the Fire Brigades...

JUST PAST noon yesterday, the decision of the High Court was announced on the three-day RCN strike. This was to run from 8pm on 30th...

ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...

AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...

THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...

PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...

VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...

THE seven and a half month old strike at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, just 20 km from Athens, has been declared by...

GENERAL government debt is now over £700 billion as the slump hits public finances. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: ‘Net debt was £703.4...

‘We are determined to proceed with our march today and defeat the government’, said the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees (NCACF). The Committee...

THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...

THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...

LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...

The crisis over government plans to axe A&Es and maternity units deepened yesterday as it emerged that at least a dozen Labour ministers are...

OVER 40,000 workers and youth congregated in the central Athens square outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday night despite the riot police terrorist...

GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...

THE sale of Tata’s UK steel business is being held up by the Indian parent company insisting any buyer has to take on a...

‘WHAT GIVES you the right to annex these lands?’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded, referring to Israel’s plan to seize even more of Palestine...

THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...